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There were a few very strong Englishmen too.:D Here's one of my favorites, Thomas Inch a strongman from the 1800's and early 1900's. In 1906 he had a 172 lb 9 oz dumbell with 2.4 inch diameter handle manufactured. Here's a very early movie clip when he was in his 60's lifting it overhead along...

That's an interesting read Chris. Thanks. Here's a couple of vids that will give some inspiration to the young bucks who worry about getting old staying in the tree biz. A 56 year old Basque superman named Joxe Mari Olasagasti. Who loves to still be able to compete with an axe beating...

:lol:maybe its a modified racing scythe.

Fiona and Rich, Ron Hartill had one son named Dale, he was in the timbersport circuits for years ,don't know what happened to him. Mick , the saw in that 1971 Paul Newman movie was a McCulloch CP125. introduced in '69 and replaced by the SP 125 in '71-'72. Here's one more little write up about...

When Robert Paxton Mc Culloch died in Feb. 1977 the U.S. saw industry basically died along with him as he was a top driving force entrepreneur in that field in the US. Partner was a Swedish company , like Poulan and countless others were swallowed up by the Swedish Electrolux company. :) Magnus...

Mick at the time when Ron Hartill promoted those Poulans in the early years[approx 1975- 1980's] there wasn't alot of competition. Ron worked with Poulan as a spokesmen until about 1990 then he switched to Husqvarna. In 1975 Poulan introduced the 4200 [68cc] and the 5200 [85cc] which are...

Here's some articles from the late 1980's of my old friend Ron Hartill who praises the respect he had for the Basques.......and U.S.A.;)

I just found some articles on Ron Hartill where he talks about his experiences with the Basques. I need daylight to take good photographs of the pages to post here. So will do tomorrow after I take my kids to meet the inlaws as it's spring break here. There was a time I could just scan...

Chris great thread you started here and the videos! I looked high and low for the other articles I have on the Basques, but since moving to a new home last year I still have quite a bit of stuff to unpack yet. Hopefully I can find more soon as I know of lots of other good reading that has...

Here's the last page upright.

Now don't laugh guys it was a great movie as I have alot of estrogen in my household. We just saw the Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter movie of Cinderella. It was actually very well done:D Anyways I dug up some interesting old articles on the Basque society of Spain. You may remember them...

Don't get me started Chris:D I got timbersport magazines with lots on the Basque . I worked with 3 Basque brothers when logging here in northern Manitoba since the early 1970's. Louie, Manuel and Antonio. These guys were as wide as tall and I've never met tougher loggers. I'll post...